Tara Shabazz
Executive Director
Tara Shabazz is the Executive Director of the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence where she is privileged to work in diverse capacities with its staff, board, members, and extended community to realize the agency’s goals. Tara has worked with the Partnership since its inception, and worked with the California Alliance Against Domestic Violence in a variety of capacities for five years prior to the formation of the Partnership. She brings to the Partnership over 11 years’ experience in the non-profit sector, working in management, training, education, advocacy, and fund development. Tara has overseen the development of the Partnership’s programs and services, served on numerous committees and task forces, written training materials and articles, and presented at statewide and national conferences.

Tara has worked in the areas of youth violence prevention and teen pregnancy prevention, advocacy, community organizing, agency capacity building, educational program planning and development, and multicultural issues. She has made numerous professional presentations in the area of cultural competency in the context of violence against women, domestic violence in the African American community, and outreach to underserved communities.

Tara holds a Master’s degree in Education, with an emphasis on Multi-Cultural Education, and a Bachelor’s in Interdisciplinary studies from California State University, Sacramento.

Jo Anna Davis
Membership Specialist
Jo Anna is the Membership Specialist for the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, where she oversees all membership activities. Jo Anna also interacts with local, state, and national consultants, community groups and domestic violence service agencies, and assists in the preparation of materials and presentations.

Jo Anna has been involved with victim rights and services since 2000, having worked with non-profit organizations as an Executive Director, program developer, manager, and advocate. Beginning as a part time Office Manager for Family Safety Network in rural Idaho, she learned every job duty and function for the program, eventually becoming one of the youngest domestic violence Executive Directors in the state. During that time, she developed crisis intervention services for victims and specialized services for domestic violence victims and youth. She coordinated and provided training for staff and volunteers, and developed training curricula and manuals.

Originally from rural Alabama, Jo Anna studied Rural Community Development, Women’s Issues, and Latin American studies in Costa Rica before graduating from the University of the South in Tennessee.

Marsha Guyton
Administrative Coordinator
Marsha is the Administrative Coordinator for the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence. She has over 15 years’ experience working closely with clergy and church leaders to raise awareness of domestic violence and child/teenage sexual abuse in the faith-based community. Marsha has dedicated her time as a volunteer to work with battered women and children. She has established and led a number of “Girl Support Groups” where girls have felt safe enough to talk about their personal experience as rape victims or sexual abuse victims while living in unsafe home environments. While majoring in Criminal Justice with a concentration in Child Abuse, she worked as a counselor for young boys living in a group home for juveniles released from the California Youth Authority.

Prior to working for the Partnership, Marsha was employed at Lockheed Martin Corporation, where she received a number of awards for administrative excellence. Marsha is dedicated to helping survivors and excited to be involved in a movement that is working hard to end domestic violence in the state of California.

Camille Hayes
Public Affairs Specialist
Before joining the Partnership, Camille worked as the Education & Outreach Specialist for the Nevada Network Against Domestic Violence, Nevada’s statewide domestic violence coalition. While at NNADV, Camille spearheaded community education programs, directed a distance education course for domestic violence advocates, and launched a strategic media outreach program, the first in that agency’s history.

In addition to her work in the domestic violence movement, Camille also has experience
in teaching and journalism. She has taught writing at Stanford University, the University of Nevada, and Truckee Meadows Community College. From 2000-2002 she worked as a features reporter for the Reno Gazette-Journal, and she continues to work as a freelance writer for newspapers and magazines. Camille holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a Master of Arts in English.

Jacquie Marroquin
Program Coordinator
Jacquie Marroquin is a Program Coordinator for the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence. She began working in the violence against women movement almost a decade ago, when she joined Haven Women’s Center of Stanislaus, an agency that works with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. During her tenure at Haven, Jacquie worked with survivors, oversaw three major programs, and provided domestic violence, sexual assault and anti-oppression trainings at local, statewide and national levels. Ms. Marroquin was elected Valley Region Council Representative with Calcasa and represented approximately twelve rape crisis centers in the Central Valley. She is one of three co-founding members of the Women of Color Focus Group that advocated for cultural considerations for the Latina community in service provision, language access and program structure.

Currently, Ms. Marroquin is a member of the state-wide Dismantling Oppression Work Group, which promotes equality, inclusion and diversity in the field of sexual violence prevention and intervention. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University, College of Extended Learning, Court/Legal Interpreting Program. Ms. Marroquin is also a 2010-2011 Fellow of New York University’s Women of Color Policy Network.

Kathy Moore, MSW
Associate Director
Kathy Moore has worked in the domestic violence field for the last 18 years, having served in direct service capacities, program management, as well as executive leadership roles. She has a strong administrative background, including serving seven years as Executive Director at a non-profit domestic violence organization in Oregon. After successfully completing a strategic plan and capital campaign to open another shelter there, Kathy relocated to California in 2005, where she continued her work in the DV field serving as an independent consultant and trainer before joining the Partnership as Associate Director.

Kathy has consulted with the Partnership on a number of projects over the last 3½ years, including the DELTA prevention program, the Unserved/Underserved LGBTQ access project, organizational development activities, grant proposals, policy advocacy efforts, and other capacity-building and evaluation-related tasks.

Lisa Fujie Parks, MPH
Prevention Program Manager
Lisa Fujie Parks is passionate about promoting heath and equity in our relationships, families, and communities. As a prevention educator at Community United Against Violence (CUAV) in 1999, she led a team of LGBTQ youth and adults to design one of the country’s first LGBTQ relationship violence prevention projects. In addition to designing, implementing and evaluating sexual and intimate partner violence prevention projects, she has delivered over 150 trainings on topics such as comprehensive primary prevention, incorporating anti-oppression principles in primary prevention, multidisciplinary collaboration, policy advocacy and media advocacy. She has provided sexual and intimate partner violence prevention training and consultation services to community-based organizations, state coalitions, state health departments and universities in California, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia and Washington. She is primary author of “Poised for Prevention: Advancing Promising Approaches to Primary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence” (a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report) and co-author of “The Spectrum of Sexual Violence Prevention: Toward a Community Solution” (a National Sexual Violence Resource Center publication). Prior to joining the Partnership as staff in April 2009, Lisa worked as a consultant and managed the Partnership’s LGBTQ DV TAT Project.

Allen Pontes
Finance Coordinator
Allen has been the Finance Coordinator for the Partnership since December of 2009, but prior to that had worked for about a year and a half as the general bookkeeper for the agency. Allen crams in as much work as he can under his “part-time” status as he spends more time utilizing the right side of his brain in his career as a professional actor/director, and maintaining his own video business, AP&C Productions. “It’s true, I do things backwards. I actually crunch numbers part-time and work full-time in the arts!”

Alicia Stonebreaker
Program  Coordinator
Alicia is a Program Coordinator for the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence. She has been involved in intimate partner violence prevention and education since 2002. As an advocate for those seeking mental health services she aided in the development of new procedures and policies at a local mental health clinic. She has direct and indirect counseling experience and has catered her education to understanding the construction of violence. As an avid volunteer she has aided in the planning process and the creation of large and small scale events.  Alicia holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Women’s Studies from California State University, Sacramento, and is in the process of attaining her Master’s in Public Administration with the University of San Francisco.

Tiarra Earls
Policy & Communications Associate
Tiarra is the Policy & Communications Associate for The Partnership, where she is responsible for providing support for the agency’s policy and public affairs work. She assists with media relations, newsletters and publicity efforts, and participates in public policy initiatives. Before joining The Partnership, Tiarra was the Webmaster & Communications Coordinator for The California Association of Alcohol and Drug Program Executives, a trade association for organizations that provide drug and alcohol treatment services. There, she took on the project of overhauling the organization’s website, in order to make it easier to navigate and attract more visitors. She provided writing and editing support for the organization’s weekly newsletter and often attended hearings in the State Capitol in order to draft articles and alerts for public policy communication efforts. Tiarra holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Studies with a concentration in public relations from CSU Sacramento.